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What's the fastest timeline to get green card under EB-3? What things does the employer company does that could speed things up like batch process, generic existing applicable job posting?

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Country of birth is the most important factor. Certain countries, most notably China and India, have significant backlogs and the process can take many years. For those not from a heavily backlogged country, the ways to speed up the green card process are limited, including, during the PERM process, commencing recruitment when the prevailing wage request is submitted (and not yet approved) and using recruitment to cover multiple positions/employees. And then, once the PERM application is approved, using premium processing to accelerate the approval of the next step, the I-140 petition.

Wait -- is it country of birth or country of citizenship? If I was born in Switzerland but held a Bangladeshi passport could I possibly use the former's priority queue?

It is birthplace, so if you were a Bengladeshi national but were born in CH, you would fall into the Swiss queue (which is the "everyone else" queue).

If this is you, congratulations, this is the shortest possible line. Though, if you were Bengladeshi-born I think you may actually be in the same queue? The queues are India/China/Mexico/Phillipines/Everyone Else.

Personally naturalized via marriage a long time ago but the birthplace/nationality arb is super interesting!

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